Blaise Pascal Quotes

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

What I care about is maximum information.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts